Khanate of Kokand

The Khanate of Kokand was a Central Asian state that existed from 1709 to 1883, with Kokand serving as its capital. Kokand existed in Kyrgyzstan, eastern Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, and southeastern Kazakhstan. The khanate was established when the Shaybanids declared independence from the Khanate of Bukhara, and the khanate paid tribute to its protector, the Qing dynasty, from 1774 to 1798. In 1842, the Emirate of Bukhara invaded Kokand, and the khanate was weakened by a bitter civil war and Russian and Bukharan incursions. On 28 June 1865, Imperial Russian Army troops under Mikhail Chernyayev captured Tashkent, followed by Khujand in 1867. In 1868, Kokand was turned into a vassal state of the Russian Empire, and Kokand was finally annexed by force in 1875 after an anti-Russian ruler took the throne. Kokand became a part of Russian Turkestan after the annexation.